London Telegraph, May 11, 2016: Difference between revisions
(linkage / +style formatting) |
m (update A Face In The Crowd (musical) link) |
||
Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
Elvis Costello has always been a man of many words. His latest tour is as much about his written and spoken ones as the hefty body of work he has turned out as a songwriter. Following on from ''Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink'', his entertaining if self-excoriating autobiography last year, Detour delves into the roots of the boy born Declan MacManus who became the British New Wave wunderkind – and sees him sharing memories from his life on the road and the influence of his family and musical heroes interspersed with songs from across his back catalogue, all played without a band. | Elvis Costello has always been a man of many words. His latest tour is as much about his written and spoken ones as the hefty body of work he has turned out as a songwriter. Following on from ''Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink'', his entertaining if self-excoriating autobiography last year, Detour delves into the roots of the boy born Declan MacManus who became the British New Wave wunderkind – and sees him sharing memories from his life on the road and the influence of his family and musical heroes interspersed with songs from across his back catalogue, all played without a band. | ||
This was in no ways an earnest "unplugged" set, though. Costello moved between electric guitar and piano, playing with the undiminished fury of his youth, packing in a dazzling range of numbers from the explosive run of albums he put out in the late Seventies and early Eighties: from "Oliver's Army" and "Accidents Will Happen" up to new songs such as "[[A Face In The Crowd|A Face in The Crowd]]" that he said he was writing for a [[A Face In The Crowd ( | This was in no ways an earnest "unplugged" set, though. Costello moved between electric guitar and piano, playing with the undiminished fury of his youth, packing in a dazzling range of numbers from the explosive run of albums he put out in the late Seventies and early Eighties: from "Oliver's Army" and "Accidents Will Happen" up to new songs such as "[[A Face In The Crowd|A Face in The Crowd]]" that he said he was writing for a [[A Face In The Crowd (musical)|musical]]. | ||
It was a fresh way of hearing the impressively energetic and still impishly bespectacled 61-year-old drawing the dots between the wildly different styles he has dipped into. As if making up for the lack of bodies on stage, Costello wrenched and wrangled his guitar with the calm fury of a serial killer, but the sound could sometimes not match his powerfully expressive voice, still one of the most distinctive Scouse American drawls in music but that, in the mix, sometimes ended up booming like a pub crooners wail. | It was a fresh way of hearing the impressively energetic and still impishly bespectacled 61-year-old drawing the dots between the wildly different styles he has dipped into. As if making up for the lack of bodies on stage, Costello wrenched and wrangled his guitar with the calm fury of a serial killer, but the sound could sometimes not match his powerfully expressive voice, still one of the most distinctive Scouse American drawls in music but that, in the mix, sometimes ended up booming like a pub crooners wail. |
Revision as of 00:40, 1 June 2016
Elvis Costello: Detour continues to July 19.
|
|